PUB AFF 148
U.S. Housing Policy and Geography of Opportunity
Description: Lecture, three hours. Exploration of contemporary levels of racial inequality through lens of U.S. housing policy. Study includes historical overview of federal policies; evaluation of ways by which living in racially segregated, high-poverty neighborhoods constrain opportunity and social mobility; exploration of most prevalent affordable housing policies; and evaluation of their respective program designs and outcomes. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Most Helpful Review
Fall 2024 - This class was a waste of time and money. Not only did I not learn anything, but my GPA was dropped. She makes this class seem a lot harder than it should be and grades incredibly unfairly. She has a specific rubric she provides for assignments, yet deducts points that shouldn't have been deducted according to the rubric. She did not have any TAs, so grading took weeks, if not months, and here we are the Saturday after finals week still working on our Final paper because she didn't grade our drafts in time. Truly ridicuous and upsetting. No matter how well you follow instructions, your grade will be sacrified, and you will be left frustrated and confused. Also, attendance during the entire 3-hour boring lectures that all make the same point is required for participation points. Overall, she loves to deduct points left and right while also not being on top of her own responsibilities as a teacher and leaving you with barely any new knowledge. Lectures just included socialist ideas and the main point that housing isn't affordable or accessible for all. There is no need to waste 30 hours of your time in class and sacrifice your GPA to learn this. Don't take this class unless you need to.
Fall 2024 - This class was a waste of time and money. Not only did I not learn anything, but my GPA was dropped. She makes this class seem a lot harder than it should be and grades incredibly unfairly. She has a specific rubric she provides for assignments, yet deducts points that shouldn't have been deducted according to the rubric. She did not have any TAs, so grading took weeks, if not months, and here we are the Saturday after finals week still working on our Final paper because she didn't grade our drafts in time. Truly ridicuous and upsetting. No matter how well you follow instructions, your grade will be sacrified, and you will be left frustrated and confused. Also, attendance during the entire 3-hour boring lectures that all make the same point is required for participation points. Overall, she loves to deduct points left and right while also not being on top of her own responsibilities as a teacher and leaving you with barely any new knowledge. Lectures just included socialist ideas and the main point that housing isn't affordable or accessible for all. There is no need to waste 30 hours of your time in class and sacrifice your GPA to learn this. Don't take this class unless you need to.
Most Helpful Review
Spring 2021 - I did not appreciate the white savior mentality and rhetoric through 1- blaming minorities and their communities for staying in their neighborhoods as if there has not been a history of white hostility that continues to exist, 2- blaming Black men for their community’s outcomes when there have been social and institutional barriers that have put Black people in an unequal and constant state of jeopardy and emergency, 3- the continued rhetoric of observing “ghettos” from the outs as a violent, dangerous, and threatening place as if it is not the home and space of many ethnic minorities, 4- referring to Black people as “blacks” continuously which is outdated and offensive, and so many more instances in which I felt ostracized in a class that studied spaces in which I grew up in.
Spring 2021 - I did not appreciate the white savior mentality and rhetoric through 1- blaming minorities and their communities for staying in their neighborhoods as if there has not been a history of white hostility that continues to exist, 2- blaming Black men for their community’s outcomes when there have been social and institutional barriers that have put Black people in an unequal and constant state of jeopardy and emergency, 3- the continued rhetoric of observing “ghettos” from the outs as a violent, dangerous, and threatening place as if it is not the home and space of many ethnic minorities, 4- referring to Black people as “blacks” continuously which is outdated and offensive, and so many more instances in which I felt ostracized in a class that studied spaces in which I grew up in.
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